Amy Nathan | 50 years ago, hope at the merry-go-round

11:14 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

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Amy Nathan
| Special to The Washington Post

There will be many commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Once these events are over, there will remain in Washington several reminders of the march and its message. One is on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the words "I Have a Dream" are engraved where King stood to deliver his speech. Another is at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, where an excerpt from the speech appears on the base of King's statue.

There is yet another: a historical marker that has just been installed in an unusual place - at the merry-go-round on the ...